Support for TSJI has enabled the establishment of ongoing awards and fellowships to support the visionary scholarly and artistic work of students and colleagues.
TSJI/Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
The TSJI/Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship was awarded to Prof. Channon Miller (TC ‘11) in Fall 2023. Miller (she/her) also joined the Trinity College faculty in American Studies and History. Her book, Diasporic Homeplaces: Black Women’s Trans-Geographic Mothering Work is under contract with Columbia University Press.
C. L. R. James Justice Fellowship
The C. L. R. James Justice Fellowship was awarded to Benjamin Stumpf in August 2024. Stumpf (they/them) is a PhD candidate in political theory at the University of Connecticut-Storrs. The award will support research in Atlanta for their dissertation, “Abolition Hegemony: Resisting Cop Cities in the Era of Climate Crisis.”
TSJI Research Fellowship
The TSJI Research Fellowship was awarded to Dansowaa Adu (TC ‘24) to support research for her undergraduate thesis, “‘They Have Returned’: Ghanians, African Americans, and the State Cultivation of Diasporic Desires.” Dansowaa (she/her) will continue this work as she pursues an M.A. in American Studies at Trinity College.
TSJI Non-Resident Fellowship
The first TSJI Non-Resident Fellowship was awarded to Marcus Green (Pasadena City College/ International Gramsci Society) in August 2024. During the fellowship, Professor Green (he/him) will be working on his new book, Gramsci and Subaltern Social Groups: Philology, Politics, and the Struggle for Hegemony.
Tiana Sharpe Art Award
The Tiana Sharpe Art Award recognizes the ethics, passion, and commitment to social justice through the arts that Tiana Sharpe (she/her) (TC ‘23) modeled as a student at Trinity. The inaugural honoree, Sharpe was awarded for her series, “Ambiguous Loss,” her thesis project in Human Rights and Hispanic Studies. The work is permanently displayed in the TSJI space.
